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ZEPHANIAH O. GRABIEL. Z/.^- 

This Poem is a P ersont^c^Uhh\''^^^..iffe m9st 

important Elements and Conditions < of 

Nature and the Universe, with 

God as the Author of all 

Thifigs. 



Editsd by Grabibl Bros. 
1896. 



as' 

IPretace. 



This Poem, written by Z. O. Gra- 
biel, is a personification of the most 
important elements in the Universe 
and in Nature. It is sent out with the 
desire that it may prove to be a profit- 
able visitor to every one who may 
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ing- it before the public is to test a 
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to give to the Board of Missions three 
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Hoping that it may remain in the 
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Sincerely, 

Rev. V. ly. Grabiei,. 



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NATURE'S AUTHOR. 

God was a positive deg^ree, 
A spirit having- power to be; 
Naught else existed but the three, 
Consisting of the trinity. 

All wisdom crowned his righteousness 
With love, power, truth and holiness; 
Was infinite eternally 
Unchanged, as to Eternity. 

Creation he could bring about 
By the word of his power and might, 
And out of boundless hove he planned 
The work complete for Nature's hand. 

He made all living existence 
On the stage of Time to be played. 
And weighed their each environments 
In Eternity, which he made. 

And that continuance be. 

The author of Eternity 

Framed from the highest harmony [be 

Each step with Eaws that such should 



4 NATURE. 

II. 

NATURE'S ATTRIBUTES. 

Attending- Klements of his 
That go to make up qualities, 
And all the I^aws that g-overn Space 
These attributes did God embrace 
With all the powers he could enlist 
To make a thing- of Time exist. 

Ivaw was the standard of all Truth 
Whom God had set to watch, as proof 
That all things be as was required 
To make Creation as he desired. 

Ivove was God's greatest faculty, 
And by his powers of harmony 
Should God's powers all through' Na- 
Developed in E^ternity. [ture be 

Space, who kept Time in his embrace 
To illustrate the I^aws of place 
Where all God's attributes could be 
When Nature formed Kternity, 
Stood waiting at Creation's door. 
Till God the proper time restore. 

All attributes of God's own power 
Were Nature's fields, where he should 

hour 
Old Time, in space's zones, and see 
His conquest over Dormancy. 

God placed them in Eternity, 

And portioned to them their degree 



NATURE. 

Of work and their allotted time 
That Creation be full and prime. 

And Dormancy, the power of death 
Who held the Devil's selfish breath, 
Now sat with darkness on the throne 
Of nonentity, Satan's domain. 



III. 

GOD'S PURPOSE OF NATURE. 

To reveal his love most holy 
And attain the highest glory, 
Was God's plan of Eternity 
In which Creation was to be. 

This should come forth through life 

and grow 
As God to Nature would bestow 
His power, and grant him use the same 
Which was the part for which he came. 

Nature should be endowed with power 
To form the elements in life's bower, 
Where God would place a spirit, free 
To grow to immortality 
And enter into realms of bliss 
Excelled by none in happiness. 

Did God not utilize his power 
Old Dormancy would Time devour, 
And love would never show his face 
And void would be the page of space. 



6 NATURE, 

IV. 

GOD'S REQUIREMENTS OF NATURE^. 

Nature, the servant God had made 
To be assistant and to aid 
In the work of his Creation, 
God now plans to take his station. 

But the work for him to perform 
Must by his Law stand and conform. 
And development could not be 
If all with Law did not ag-ree. 

Thus to comply with God's demands 
Life's freedom should be in Laws 
Dependent on the elements [hands 
Consigned to Nature, at their expense. 

But Law that filled a living space 
Should be in harmony's embrace. 
Before that God would grant a place 
For these elements to embrace. 

God's Laws should rule the elements. 
And Nature hemmed within Law's 

fence, 
Had to abide till God unfold [led. 

His Love where Dormant laws control- 
Law could not swerve from God's de- 
mands. 
For in the Law God made all plans, 
And so Life seemed to be in vain 
Because of Dormancy domains. 



NATURE. 1 

Thus did these powers stand fixed, un- 
moved, 
Till all the Laws God had approved. 
And Nature, famis,hing- for light, 
Was worthy made to quit the uight 
And gain entrance to higher Laws, 
That kingdom where the living was. 

The elements that were combined 
Began to search as tho' lo tind 
What course of Laws was in the mind 
Of God foi progress lo their end. 

Boundless Love, Holiness and Grace 
Ceased living dormant in their place. 
And sat watching for Time and Space 
And all their Laws in Nature's case. 

While Law holds forth their rules of 
power [hour, 

Nature will choose from Time their 
And Love would harmonize and lend 
Assistance till Creation's end. 

In that great magnet, Universe, 
Each separate atom should rehearse 
The part that God allotted it 
In such a way as he saw fit. 

Each in a system of its own, 
Nature conducting through the zone 
Of Laws for all environment 
To form the whole of God's intent. 

And so within each particle 
Of substance or material. 



8 NATURE. 

God placed a Law for each degree 
Of change or state or what should be. 

And every chang-e or action made 
By processes of I^aw was weighed, 
And balanced up in God's own mind 
And by him properly consigned 
To make a part of one great whole, 
Which Ivaw should govern and control 
These fields of power within Nature 
We designate as persons were. 



V. 

*GOD EXPELS SATAN. 
God— 
"Since first I was upon the stage [age, 
And thou by me was made to fill the 
Previous to the time when I began 
To fix and form Creation's plan, 
Thou hast been a part of me, 
And also a necessity. 
Therefore, I will not destroy thee, 
But will permit thy life to be 
As a warning to mine and me. 
Go hence into Eternity, [naught 

For thy work disturbs and brings to 
The very objects of my thought." 

•Note:— Dormancy is the kingrdom of dark- 
ness, which is Satan's dominion, and all 
reverting-s from life are Satan's forces. 
Therefore, war in Heaven was a necessity 
when Creation was planned. 



NATURE, 9 

Satan — 

"What? Dost thou think me false to 
Have not I been ag-es with thee [thee? 
Without the least complaint? 
Think you wrong-. I will not suffer 

such treatment. 
(Aside) My power by habit is the L/aw, 
Which if broken makes void all L*aw." 

God— 
"Nay, I^ucifer, thy work is done 
Before my throne, and creation 
Demands all of my attention; 
I command you depart, begone." 

De-vil— 
"Not for my life I'll not resign 
My of&ce here for time is mine. 
And he'll declare my perfect right 
To keep the keys of Dormant night." 

God— 
"My Ivove doth bear with thee, 
Satan, thou king- of Dormancy; 
For peace and harmony 
I will be fair with thee; 
LfCt wisdom choose twixt thee and me. 
To judge how Time spend Eternity." 

Satan — 

"Ah, well, my L<ord, 'tis fair in you, 
I will here judgment agree to, 
There'll be no harm in this to me, 

(Aside) 
For I control the powers that be, 



10 KATURM. 

Periods of Nonentity, 

Centers my throne in Dormancy." 

God— 
"Then, L/Ucifer, prepare thy proof. 
The witnesses in your behalf; 
For Wisdom will be fair with all, 
Deciding- for all powers in full." 

Satan — 

"Upon the throne her highness be 
To judge my powers o'er time to be; 
I am away to make report 
My proof before her royal court." 

Wisdom Truth and Love exercising- God's 
tnind. 

Truth— 
"What is without? Hark, do you hear 
A strange commotion drawing near 
Like CO a hurricane of fire, 
Satan's burning dormant desire?" 

Love — 
"Tis Satan coming as in war, 
To prove his authority here; 
And tortures Time for his embrace, 
To subdue him to plead his case." 

Wisdom — 
"What is the matter with his grace? 
Does he not reign within his place?" 

Truth— 
"My Lord, becomes to Wisdom's court 



NATURE. 11 

To plead his cause and make report; 
His right as to Eternity, 
To keep it in its Dormancy; 
For God forbid him near his throne 
Henceforth, saying- his work is done, 
For which your judgment to decide; 
For your decree they have agreed, 
Thus Satan brings his proof you see, 
i^nters him now like Dormancy. 

Love — 
"Quiet as death is Wisdom's word, 
Not a sound in his court is heard; 
But his feelings one plain can see 
Shudders at sight of Dormancy." 

Satan— 
"Going up and down, to and fro 
Through all ages, as you well know. 
My part has been a one-third lot 
Among the powers that here have 

wrought; 
And I by custom have attained 
To favor in my vast domain; 
But now that some disturbers bring 
Complaint of me before the King, 
To your decision we've agreed 
Before your court the case to plead." 

And so the war of Heaven began. 
Of which we postpone description; 
Results of which was Creation, 
Whom God sends Nature to begin. 
And all the while thro' dormant vale, 
I hear the cries of powers that wail 



12 NATURE. 

And writhe in agony of wars, 
That Satan stirs up with these powers; 
For he has pledged to them their lot, 
His gain they want, truth they care 
lyove is not in them but for gain, [not. 
Dormancy their omly aim. 



VI. 

GOD SENDS LIGHT TORTH. 

While Height with Nature bore his share 
Till all these things God did prepare, 
He came to see that Nature bore 
The key of freedom to his door; 
And God alone could give the hour 
To open it for any power. 

And by his lens, (Love's sympathy), 
Adjusted on the Law to see 
If Nature could but atomize 
The Elements, and fill the skies 
With them. His spirit could reflect 
Upon these atoms, and connect 
His light at every point of space. 
If perfect shape their form and face. 

And through the windows of the place 
He saw his freedom. Love with space 
Had caught the Elements in a breeze 
"V^hich now was growing by degrees. 



NATURE. 13 

Electric force was forming- fast, 
From spirit magnets in the blas,t; 
And chemic action taking- place, 
Awakened everything in space 

And Nature's form began to change 
In I^aws of L/ight God did arrange; 
Already Time had now begun 
To count the moments, one by one, 
God now placed I^aw throughout all 

space 
To keep the Elements in place; 

These Elements Old Nature ties 
Up by the Ivaw and thus comprise 
The many bundles that Old Time 
Presents to Space, upon the line 
Of life that God to Nature gave 
To stamp and shape each one in brave 
Outline, upon the field to reap 
Which is assigned for Space to keep 
In charge. While I^aw makes life the 

slave 
Of Nature who assigns to grave 
His work these bundles to undo 
While he of them forms bundles new. 



14 NATURE. 

VII. 

* NATURE'S CONTEST. 

The time was when opposing- I^aws 
Had no existence power or was; 
God was the balanced power alone 
For Creation was not yet known. 

But when Creation's Ivaws were laid, 
The State prior to them was made 
A minor part of existetice; 
Whose lyaws opposed life in a sense, 
Were just and rig-ht when in their place 
The proper spirit they embrace. 

But this by Nature could not be, 
Their dormant spirit had g-one free 
To roam at large at his own will; 
And when the spirit Satan fell. 
These powers of Nature parallel. 
Gave him a place to live and dwell; 
For they are powers and parts of him, 
His character began in them. 

Here Darkness had prevailed so long. 
By Law, but not in behalf of wrong, 
But that old selfish Dormancy, 
Be gluttoned in an empty sea. 

And oft he had consoled his thoug-ht, 
That the I^aw could not swerve a jot; 
His confidence resting- thereon, 

•*Note: — Dormancy often takes the form of an 
individual devil as in this chapter. 



NATURE, IS 



Not dreaming that lig-ht would e'er 
dawn. 

But Ivove was the element to subdue, 
These fixed results that all pursue, 
A sweeter strain of harmony, 
Upon a broader sympathy; 
Had long- been showing- to his friends, 
I/ife's benefits and Nature's ends. 

Therefore Darkness tried to compose 
The L<aw, and persuade him to refuse 
To listen to Love's pleasant voice; 
When all the powers bid well Love's 
choice. 

His jealousy was now aroused 

With Dormancies that Love espoused; 

The life of Nature in whose heart. 

Time beat a sympathetic part, 

For Time had always been his friend, 

With him his former life did spend. 

He tried to show that rest was ease. 
And that to chang-e rules would dis- 
Making discordant elements, [please, 
incumbering- each with expense. 

Making- a dark shadowy plea 
That Nature with law did not ag-ree; 
And to leave Nature in his hands. 
He would eclipse Nature's demands. 

To illustrate that all mig-ht see 
What Nature would require to be, 



16 NATURE. 

He broug-ht his blackness into sig-ht, 
And what required to make it lig"ht, 
Showing- that lig^ht would kill his 

power, 
And all his shadows would devour. 

Dormancy tried to show the way, 
In which Time's life would be a prey 
To all the powers that did exist; 
How he from them could not resist, 
The moments they had loaned of him, 
Could never be redeemed again. 

L<aw then answered in terms his own, 
That Time's business was that to loan. 
And though he gave moments away, 
His life would be spared day by day, 

And Time was willing tlius to give 
His life for them that they might live. 
To do their part within the place 
God had deigned them to embrace. 

Darkness then pleads that Dormancy 
And Nature could never agree. 
And if given the elements to use. 
Nature would Dormancy's pow'r abuse. 

And seeing Time would natural be. 
From then throughout Eternity, 
Dormancy tried to get the space, 
To forbid Nature in his place. 

Saying that he'd disturb his rest, 
And overrun the place with pest, 



NATURE. xn 

Burdening him with worldly care; 
Kncumbering- with an atmosphere; 
Making- a cloudy fog- to fill, 
His premises at Nature's will. 

And constellations by the score, 
Would zodiac his place all o'er; 
Until no other room be found, 
That a planet might circle round. 

Electric forces would arise 
Distending- him in endless skies, 
And subjugate by force and storms. 
The powers therein in various forms. 

And light would come with starry eyes. 
Reflecting- on him in dis skies. 
With lightest sympathy and rays, 
(His hoary locks) and stand and gaze. 

But space well knew how things would 
How that the Law to Dormancy [be, 
Had talked, and bid him keep away 
From Life, who would Love's powers 
obey. 

With some degree of sympathy. 
Space bid him go and search to see, 
If in his place he could abide. 
If Time would order him to hide. 

Darkness then pale as tho' from fear, 
Seeing th<tt Tune was drawing near, 
Began to hide away from sight. 
While Time and Nature marked his 
mght, 



1« NATURE. 

Provision in the lyaw was made [laid, 
For Dormancy, whose schemes were 
To retain all powers that would aid 
Him hold Dormant conditions made. 

For he, (to bar Creation's door 
Permitting- Nature there no more), 
Had claimed all powers were his, and 

hence, 
(Gotten throug-h his inheritance). 
The rig-ht of which was in his power. 
To dispose of as he desired. 
And Nature had no business there 
Except as he would choose to sKare, 
(As though he had authority 
Above that of the Trinity). 

Here Ivaw presents God's plan of love, 
Which he pronounced should be above 
The selfishness of Dormancy; 
Where Nature, Time and Ivife agree. 
To build for God, Eternity; 
And selfishness should cease to be. 

When Dormancy could not prevail, 
He tried Nature's powers to entail. 
By sending- forth the sting: of death, 
Where it might poison Nature's 
breath. 

Because of making this offense, 
God gave Eaw orders that from hence 
Forth he should be cast into hell, 
A place of death where he should 
dwell. 



■MATURE. If 

While Time had witness this command, 
God's L/aws g-ave life to Ivove to lend, 
And Nature was released to dress, 
Creation with the powers that bless, 

His freedom was obtained by I^ove, 
Who g-ot it through God's highest L/aw; 
And leased it to the Natural I^aw, 
That Nature might develop lyove. 

This broug-ht about a work for all, 
Nature, whose powers had been so 

small, 
Became the fountain head of lyife. 
Through which Creation would derive. 

And Holiness, who was for right. 
With Grace attending-, also Ivight, 
And Time, Space, I^aw, I^ove, also 

Night, 
Gave up to Nature all their might. 

Holiness had with Love and Grace, 

Powers for spirits to embrace; 

These were all crowned God's highest 

I^aws, 
To bring about Old Nature's cause. 

Time unfolding for Life itself. 
Makes their while to drink his health; 
Space bids God's powers all each and 

one. 
Come sharft with him his possession. 



» NATURE. 

Giving to lyife the powers of choice, 
By Ivaw Ivife speaks in Nature's voice; 
Honored with all is that of L/ight, 
Crowned by Creation over the Night; 
These all render through I^aw their 

part, 
Held Ivife to pulsate Nature's heart. 

And lyove abounds in every place, 
Holding their powers in his embrace; 
Sympathizing with each care. 
And all their discords helps to bear; 
Redeeming them if it could be. 
To a higher L^aw of sympathy. 



VIII. 

NATURE IN CREATION. 

Time who had sat upon Law's fence, 
For many years at great expense, 
To Nature himself no profit, 
Was waiting on all who sought it. 

He together with his friend, Space, 
Because acquainted in every place; 
And represented Nature's plan. 
Of their own live's span upon span. 

Holiness and grace go along, 
Ivike a spirit of music and song, 
That Love's presence be everywhere, 
Representing the work now theirs, 
And see that Nature rightly lends, 
To the spirit as God intends. 



NATURE, V. 

While Creation is on its way, 
The powers of Dormancy give way, 
Darkness is cast in Hell's highway, 
And lyight comes forth, the dawn of 
day. 

And all the elements of space, 
Are set apart to fill their place; 
And Nature has his powers to be, 
Extended to eternity. 

While silently, yet thundering loud, 
Time steals along behind a shroud. 
And debits life with moments used. 
Credits Dormancy with death infused; 
For Dormancy had left his blight, 
Till death should come and claim his 
right. 

And death's mark is upon the scene. 
And shows where Dormancy has been; 
Where Nature springs a living bud. 
In Time's life-race, Creation's flood. 
That lyove return to him who gave. 
Released by Death as Nature's slave. 

And what was known of each domain, 
Was never known as that again; 
Except as Time had marked the place, 
That those who judge might keep its 
trace. 

And ages roll I^ife's atoms o'er. 

And leave their trace on Nature's floor; 

Till Creation has moved its marks. 



22 NATURE. 

Where suns shone out like many 
sparks. 

And planetary orbs which play, 
Around their suns and course their way 
With them along- the firmaments, 
By the L<aws for Nature's guidance. 

And as Creation marches on, 
Nature hang-s them one by one, 
Upon a chain of periods, 
As numerous as myriads; 
Each one he classified its power, 
What part of Time it did devour. 

A Sun cast out in space to be 

A mass of Electricity, 

Would flash, flicker, sputter and be 

In a state of fluidity. 

Its chemicals that made it such. 
Were so arrang-ed, that slightest touch 
Of current Electricity, 
Would make its face a flaming sea. 

All suns were naturally 

A mass of Electricity, 

Placed in their periods of Time, 

Revolving in their space sublime; 

And balanced there by Nature's will, 

God's power given Nature to fulfill. 

Each sun comprising magnet power. 
To balance Space and thus devour 
The moments that Old Time had 

spared, 
As*kisses which all Nature shared, 



NATURE. 33 

They are a great refining- fire, 
That changes dross for God's desire, 
The use of which is for the wall 
Of new Jerusalem's temple. 

And as each part complete is made 
Within the wall it then is laid, 
Which sparkles with its brilliancy, 
Within the wall of Galaxy. 

The Galaxy when once complete 
Will be the city's golden street. 
The wall between the heaven world, 
And that where death and hell are 
hurled. 

Thus when Old Time has run his race, 
And God has gathered to his place, 
The scene, though changed, will be 

the same 
As that before Old Nature came. 

God was a positive degree. 

His negative was Dormancy; 

And just between the two was Time, 

Who was a wall dividing them. 

And other balls with tails supplied. 
Were cast about on every side; 
And as by Nature they were sent, 
They knew no bounds of firmament. 

Although their Natures rambling are. 
They are the main develop star; 
Drawing slowly when e'er they call, 
Material for God's temple wall. 



34 NATURE. 

I<ike spider in his silken den, 

Whose trap has caught young- mouse 

within, 
Goes here and there to tighten cords 
Or loosen other tiny threads. 
And by his patient laboring 
Will draw him up in air to swing. 

The comet in his airy nest, 
Goes back and forth upon its crest; 
And draws the solar systems all, 
Toward the Galaxy's great wall. 

A planet was unlike a sun 
In that it was to balance one, 
And fill up all the space required. 
By lyaw and as Nature desired. 

Revolving with fixed angles, they 
By magnetism were to stay. 
Positioned in a Zodiac, 
Coursing along an ether track. 

These magnets negative are far 
Inferior to Sun's great power, [bear, 
Who sends light with warm heart to 
Comfort to their cold atmosphere. 

And keep them turning on their poles, 
Which marks there days while Time 

unfolds. 
Shadows that Darkness gave to Night 
To wrestle with the powers of light. 

Darkness and light are opposites. 
Positive and negative bits; [these 

And when planets are charged with 



NATURE. 25 

That part the long-est from sun's ray's, 
Becomes inore strong-ly negative, 
While nearing- to its positive. 

And as the heated side repels [dwells. 
The part where Height the longest 
Becomes acute to chang-e its place, 
And let the darkness hide its face. 

This is God's special plan of rest. 
Which change takes place in Nature's 
That all the Universe be lit, [breast. 
Just the extent that he sees fit. 

And Nature smiles, his rosy cheeks, 
Acknowledges their power. He speaks 
God's wisdom in each character. 
And sing-s his praise in atmosphere. 



IX. 

*FATHER AND MOTHER NATURE. 

And God supreme sits on the throne. 
Judging- the work as it is done; 
Imparts to Nature of earth's place. 
How he should form it into space. 

*Note: — In 5th verse Gazy is represented as 
onlj^ in the mind of God, but coming- to 
form in verse 6, he exists, and in verse 7 
becomes Nebulae, into which Nature will 
send a spark. He is here represented as the 
Nebulae from which our solar system was 
formed. Afterwards he is spoken of as 
the starry Universe as seen from the 
earth. 



26 NATURE. 

"While Nature views the land and sea, 
As God reveals how it shall be, 
He takes a spectrum of the place. 
Calculating- its entire space; 
The form in which it now exists, 
I^ies iti darkness, shadows and mists. 

As preparations for life express 
The requirements of earth progress; 
Two divisions in Nature were. 
One Earth, and one the Atmosphere. 
The E^arth was Father Nature's home. 
Its life was Father Nature known; 
The Atmosphere from I^arth to skies. 
This, Mother Nature should comprise. 

These should exist within the place, 
Known where Old Gazy does embrace; 
And Gazy was to be a clerk, 
Assisting- Nature's space-hall work. 

He was then a vag-ue dark shadow. 
That haunted a boundless hollow. 
And lived within its empty shell. 
With just sufficient room to dwell. 

And while he slept his hours away. 
Nature appeared as if to say. 
He would send an electric spark. 
To lighten up his place so dark; 

And in his hall Darkness still sat, 
lyounging- on old Dormancy's mat; 
Gazy saw this electric sphere. 
With tail of fire trailing- in rear; 



NATURE. V 

I^ooking- more bright as it drew nig-h, 
It was a comet in the sky. 

And taking" it within his arms, 
Gazy felt its electric charms; 
While swiftly pressing on its way, 
Nature the elements display; 

To revolutionize the power 
Of Dormancy that would devour 
Old Time, the I^aw, and even Space, 
If 'twere not for God's love and grace. 

And Father Time was drawing nigh. 
And watched this comet passing by; 
He began in eternity 
To record Gazy's history, 

And Nature said it is the pet 
Of the skies, a wayward comet; 
It passed before Old Gazy's face. 
And Light came in his dwelling place. 
And Father Time came in the wav, 
And saw approach his dawn of day. 

He also saw 'Old Gazy's face, 
As he was in his dwelling place. 
And things he never saw before. 
While standing at Old Gazy's door. 

And as he came within the place, 
The comet stood before his face; 
And lightnings flash and thunder 

rolls. 
As Time in Nature's life unfolds. 



28 NATURE. 

And all the elements combined, 
Working- in harmony with God's mind, 
Are hot with flaming tong-ues of fire, 
To conquer Dormancy's desire 
To keep possession of the place, 
Where Gazy is known to embrace. 

And seeing what a mag-ic spell, 
Had now upon Old Gazy fell, 
Time gave to him moments to keep, 
To company be when not asleep. 

But Gazy never slept again, 
His star-lit eyes reveal to men 
That he is wide awake by day, 
But light obscures his eyes away. 

A star peeped through Old Gazy's tent 
Where Nature quite a hole had rent; 
And while it looked it disappeared 
Behind a^cloud that Nature steered. 

But soon another star peeped in 
And gazed awhile upon the scene. 
And passed as did the star before. 
To give the place to many more. 

And as they each would take a peep. 
Old Father Time would farther creep 
Down through the chasms of the place 
To note each change that he could 
trace. 

He is as busy as a bee, 

Jotting down all that he can see; 



NATURE. 29 

And writing- it upon the walls 
Of progress's angelic halls. 

And while he does the greater part, 
Mother Nature assists in art, 
And Father Nature's chemicals 
Assists the writing- on the walls. 

And Father Nature all the while, 
Bring-s the elements to a trial 
Of theirpowers, for which God'sintent, 
Is to light up this firmament. 

This should- depend a part on Sol, 
When he became Gazy's burning- ball; 
This could not be till God provide 
Firmaments, and waters divide. 

But now the day breaks forth to lig'ht, 
And God distinguishes day from night; 
Making transparent Gazy's tent 
Whose boundary was a firmament; 
This was the Day revealed to men, 
The beginning of creation. 

Electric current through space flies, 
Enchanting water to the skies. 
Which reeled and rolled into a sphere 
In this form Earth did then appear, 
The waters and the clouds thus stay, 
The same was known as second day. 

And many were the balls thus made, 
While each were in their places staid; 
By laws of electricity. 
Volution's powers in harmony. 



2» NATURE. 

This is how God balanced all space, 
Each tnag-net could only embrace, 
That part of the magnetic skies. 
Its electric force could equalize. 

Revolving- on their polar ax. 

They speed through space in orbs 

whose tracks 
Are oval shape because that I^aw, 
Does Nature tow'rd a center draw. 
This keeps them as though in a frame, 
Poles positioned always the same. 

The power that any magnet bears, 
Exerts its force within its spheres; 
Repelling that globe for a time, 
Or drawing this one into line; 
Forcing each other's transition, 
Travers.ng orbs to completion. 

And Father Nature with them all. 
Revolves around a fiery ball; 
Which Gazy kept 'twas Sol's own light. 
Dispelling their continued night; 
But still invisible to Earth, [hearse. 
Because Earth's mists their time re- 



X. 

NATURE'S WATERS. 

The Earth was thus cast into space, 
With water o'er its entire face. 



NAIURE. 31 

"Which boiled and foamed with heated 
Until the elements of death [breath, 
Had cooled their tong-ues to that de- 
gree, 
"Where Father Nature could be free. 
To use the elements of Life, 
When Time should properly arrive. 

And lyaw bids Time to take the tide, 
At certain hours and on it ride. 
The waters o'er from east to west, 
Pulsations heaving Nature's breast. 

And Nature waves the tide to sea, 
O'er shoals and spits upon the lea, 
And bars the ocean bed with sand. 
All washed and placed by his own hand. 
Islands appear, their heads upraise 
"With bold faces against the waves; 
And holding- them at bay with sand, 
Or rocky walls that g-irt the land. 
Until the continents appear, 
With all the beauties of Nature. 

And mists had fogged the atmosphere 
Since Time to Gazy did appear; 
But now the fog- is rolled away. 
To let old Sol to rule the day. 

And he is thus unveiled to Barth, 
And his crowned radiance shows forth 
The magnitude of space, whose skies 
Blue, sparkle Gazy's brilliant eyes, 
That ever watchful day and night, 
L/Ooks upon Nature with, the lig"ht. 



32 NATURE. 

Gazy's form the oceans embrace, 
Reflecting- back his smiling- face; 
While in their depths a happy throng- 
Of water animals, some strong. 
While some have battle instruments 
Fixed to their bodies for defense; 
And they are all the lo-west stage 
Of animals, by Nature's g-auge. 

And millions of each different kind 
(Which are numberless to the mind) 
Eixist upon each other's flesh, 
Or feed upon the seaweed brush. 

Some live upon Nature's passion, 
The sea lives on Karth's salt ration. 
And moves about from place to place, 
With nervous quivering-s on her face; 
Her restless body foams and sweats. 
While o'er and o'er it summersets. 

Thoug-h playful, like the mighty host 
Of animals within her coast. 
Her disposition is more brave. 
And fearlessly, with dash of wave, 
Grasps all the objects in tide's flood. 
And smothers them in her own blood. 

Tho' calm her face or raged in storm. 
Treacherous deeps her waters form; 
And only those whose natures be 
Suited to a life in the sea 
Can withstand the embrace she g-ives; 
Or e'en stand the toss of the waves. 



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And in her bed her body lies, [skies, 
Her round face looking tow'rd the 
Reflecting- on the atmosphere, 
What makes Old Mother Nature's tear; 
And thus with sympathy she shares, 
A part of Mother Nature's airs. 

And animals that switn the deep. 
And those who ocean's bottom creep. 
And all that live above its face, 
Where dock grows at a shallow place, 
Or in the air, or on the land. 
All God creates by Nature's hand. 

Nature begets them by degrees, 
All different kinds, as Law sees 
Fit to grant to Time to bring forth, 
A higher stage upon the E^arth. 

And Love in Nature grows more 

strong. 
Development in Ocean moves along, 
And animal life has largely grown 
To take the form of flesh and bone. 

Tossing the waves with playful airs, 
Which oft violent on them bears. 
To chase each wave lust out of reach. 
Until it leaps upon the beach. 

Mother Nature gives her the splash. 
Nature gives the salt water brash, 
While she drinks up fluids prepared. 
Mother Nature to Nature'd shared. 



34 NATURE. 

Mother Nature's of bilious spells, 
Tossing- the waves, which grasp the 

shells, 
Placing- them safely at the beach, 
Some far inland just out of reach, 
While fierce billows o'er these she 

casts 
The white caps in an Ocean blast. 



XI. 

NATURE AT WORK. 

The Planet, Karth, becomes a shell. 
And on its islands formed now dwell 
A mighty host of living beasts, 
Relishing Father Nature's feast; 
And man, the object of it all. 
Is placed thereon to till the soil. 

Its inner wall is burnt and charred, 
Until its surface is so hard, 
That heat has no effect to bear. 
Upon the atoms that are there. 

And hot, electric rivers flow 
Within, and like torrents they go. 
Sweeping along the side that bears 
Electricity that Sol shares. 

And while the earth circles Old Sol, 
Their mass traverse from pole to pole. 
Through one continuous scaffolding. 
Of fire proof atoms embracing. 



IfATURE. 35 

And currents by electric fore, [course 
Pass throug-h this truss work as does 
The lyife in Nature's work throug-hout 
By Ivaw's system to bring- about 
Results through^ Life which time de- 
mands 
As God requires of Nature's hands. 

The life of earth in fever's spell 
Creates a current round its shell, 
Coursing- through Mother Nature's 

veins, 
Many through old Winter's domains, 
Which carry Winter's icy breath, 
Into the hottest zones of earth. 

The heat within earth's hardened wall, 
Causes gasses to form in all 
The outer part of earth's great crust 
Making explosions oft that burst 
Out to the surface. Or, which way 
Form in fluids in earth to stay. 
As a reserve of Nature's power, 
To draw from at the needed hour. 

'Tis Nature at work in his shop. 
Who never has time his work to drop. 
But plies his hands to this or that, 
And thus the earth abounds in fat. 

A sphere that bursteth forth with I^ife, 
God's noble work and onward stripe, 
A gift to man by Nature's part, 
An overflow of God's own heart. 



36 NATURE. 

Eiach power existing- great or small, 
Atoms of earth or aerial gall, 
Things more remote than atoms call. 
Spiritual things, creation all. 

Whether for I^ife, or Death, or Hell, 
These in Nature their story tell. 
To bring- about the work complete. 
And tender to the spirit's meat. 

These all are blessing-s for mankind, 
In whom the spirit was consigned, 
That man might glorify God's name, 
In holy usage of the same. 

And not a state or power exists. 
But in Nature who thus consists. 
Of necessary powers for L/ife 
External, or eternal Death; 
Which spirits by their will are free. 
To choose their future destiny. 

And thus the soul that God has made 
Obtains its growth through Nature's 

aid; 
While Nature tends to natural things, 
Of which man is, in whom life brings 
The growth of this eternal being, 
God or Satan overseeing. 



NATURE. 37 

XII. 

NATURE ABOUT THE SHOP. 

The workshop Nature keeps in store, 
Until this life and toil is o'er; 
And while the seasons come and go, 
Its bounteous treasures overflow. 

Oft times the business of the day, 
Would permit him outside to stay; 
But content with his indoor life, 
He leaves the outside for his wife. 

And while she plies herself to art, 
The Old Nature will do his part. 
Which he with chemistry performs. 
The work complete, her art adorns. 

Oft times a work of chemistry 
Is left for her to oversee. 
Thus Father Nature's work g^oes on 
And yet his work is never done. 

A sedentary life is his. 

And very qu"et too it is. 

But Mother Nature puts on airs 

And blows about her own affairs. 

And Mother Earth and ocean seas. 
To their polar extremities, 
In sympathy with Nature freeze. 
While hoary winterdegreeshis breaths. 

And Ocean's sweeping currents swing-. 
Their arms round polar seas and bring, 
A warm feeling to his heart, 
And winter's display of Nature's art. 



38 NATURE. 

Old Sol's reflection upon these, 
Illuminate electricities, 
Old Mother's northern auroras. 
And also southern coronas, 
Telling- by si^ns spoken by space, 
How winter pinches Nature's face. 

The saddest of the year is so, 
That when his fire of Ivife is low, 
Within his shop, he stays to hide, 
If Mother Nature storms outside* 

And while the weary hours go by, 
Gazy takes Sol far down the sky. 
He takes him there to warm the poles, 
And dissolve Nature's chemicals. 

Nature's system is so complete, 
In which to distribute the heat, 
To best advantag-e on the earth, 
Kxtending- wide its grothy girth. 

While frigid zones ice mountains raise. 
As Nature veils them from Sol's gaze, 
Sol will so sure return his feet. 
To lay them low with fervent heat. 

Sol keeps a steady fire all day, 
Watching the icebergs float awaj'. 
As they break loose from seas of ice, 
Which lay along the polar skies. 

These pass along the troughs of Earth, 
To cool Old Nature's fevered blood; 
While floating in the current's flood 
And also atmosphere's wide berth. 



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They carry cool refreshments down, 
Far in the hot and burning- zone; 
There to be neutralized again, 
By chemicals and oxyg-en. 

From whence they pass into the air, 
Being part of Mother Nature; 
Building up her decaying powers, 
Which she by times on Nature showers. 



XIII. 

MOTHER NATURE'S TEMPER. 

While Mother Nature breathes with 

lyove, 
Within the dome that stands above, 
She drinks a long- drawn draught of 

health. 
And treasures up a store of wealth. 

But in the season of repose, 
When Nature's windows winter close. 
And shuts him in, veiling from sight 
With blankets of a snowy white. 

And while her fire of life is chill. 
Because of g"oing- 'yond the hill, 
From where old Gazy sits and turns, 
The atoms over which Sol burns. 

'Tis then her fing-ers icy get, 
As she upon her hammock sits, 
Or while on winter's cavern floors 
She passes down its corridors. 



40 KATURA. 

She feels that life is cold without, 
And sympathizing- g-oes about 
Taking- her veil over her face, 
And spreading blankets every place. 

On window panes of cr_ystal ice, 
That fill the windows all so nice. 
Hard hearted winter put in place 
To shut in Nature's smiling face. 

Though cold, her hands are never still. 
Her fingers like an icicle; 
She warms them with her breath at 
Nature's temper the while is ill. [will 

She losing temper when so cold. 
Will storm awhile then tries tos cold, 
And when she gets quite warm again. 
She peeps at Nature now and then. 

And if he is as sluggish now. 
Gives him a blow upon the brow. 
And shuts the windows up once more, 
Clothed in white as they were before. 

And Gazy, broad in his embrace, 
Looks pleasant like in Mother's face, 
But oft at Mother Nature's trials, 
He casts a -vink and at her smiles. 

Oft times she takes a squally spell, 
And tempest tossed with winds that 

swell, 
He stares her squarely in the face, 
Until she fairly storms the place. 



NATURE. 41 

Her disposition restless is, 
And oft around the corner, whiz 
She g"oes, at forty knots an hour, 
As she breathes forth to vent her 
power. 

Sometimes when temperament is high 
She pelts the shop with stones near by; 
And oft as in a bark she sails. 
Its craft ag-ainst the shop she hails. 

These are but passions of her own. 
Which Nature feels has largely g^rown 
From sympathy that Gazy bears, 
As she reveals it by her airs. 

For when her castles floating- hig-h, 
Are torn in atoms from the sky, 
And hurled below towards the shot 
By taking- tumbles in a drop, 

She raises quite a thunder round, 
And makes a noise of rumbling- 
Electric forces of some kind, [sound; 
Are broug-ht to bear upon the mind. 

And after clouded thoughts have gone, 
And Sol smiles rays to peep thereon. 
The scene is bridged in colors bright. 
With a more pleasing, lovely sight. 

There, stamped upon her clouded face 
Every known color you can trace; 
She blushes at her bow in space, 
And shows it in her clouded face. 



43 NATURM. 

The backgroutid of the scene is dark, 
While in its face there stands an arc 
Of blu<^, and green, and red, and white 
And all rich colors to the sig-ht. 

The crystal globes that fall through 

space, 
Make one vast background for a base, 
And Sol has Light adorn its face, 
Who paints a rainbow there in space. 



XIV. 

MOTHER NATURE'S ART. 

Upon Time's sea old Nature's skift 
Was grounded on its present drift, 
And Mother Nature's helping hand 
Helped him to drag it on to land. 

Kver since, she art is plying, 
And the artists all are trying, 
By the powers at their command, 
To imitate her work by hand. 

On her canvas representle. 
She oft blows her breath so gentle, 
That a change in its relation, 
Brings new scenes of variation. 

On the walls of Nature's workshop, 
Hanging from bottom to the top, 
Is one lovelv painted seance, [ance. 
Always seen with changed appear- 



NATURE. 45 

And thoug-h Tittle has often scanned it 
And was there with those who plan- 
ned it, 
Interest in it seems tostreng-then 
As the past may grow and leng-then. 

This g-reat picture on Time's easel 
Stamps in life how truth is real, 
Life of every different shade. 
Following- naught but laws God laid. 

God's laws of lyife disting-uishing* 
Its kind alone and producing- 
Within the channels of each lyaw 
Marked expressions, features 'thout 
The Nature, will and character, [flaw, 
The color, grooming and the care. 

Spiritual powers and reasoning, 
Centering in its maker being. 
Blurred not with an imperfect scroll, 
Picture of perfectness the whole. 

Impressions cast from God's own mind 
Kternal I^aws which were designed. 
For Mother Nature to express [ness. 
God's Wisdom, Ivove, Power, Perfect- 
Printed upon the page of Space, 
Depths unfathomable make trace 
Their powers; whose series never end, 
Whose L/aws but God alone can tend. 

This life as yet in harmony, 
With that living truth, Eternity, 



44 NATURE. 

Rendering- to God its feeble prayer. 
Only as Time's cloak pictures it there. 

God's laws are infinite in all 
His love, unbounded by a wall; 
And reaches to all creatures small, 
Kven to man after his fall. 

To see God's powers in grandest scale 
He formed the universe wholesale, 
With Truth as center of its swing-. 
Round which the worlds in time doth 

cling- 
In love; and so God's g-reatest thing- 
Is Truth, the center of the ring-. 

Reasoning- man hath not an eye 
More perfect than he who stood by; 
Desig-ned his powers that hemig-ht see 
How his own perfectness should be. 

Eternity hath not its space 

To reconcile it in its place; 

But that Old Mother Nature's Laws 

Are justified through God the cause. 

Picture of an endless space. 
Showing- creation in its place, 
Mother Nature's eternal face, [brace. 
All blessed with God in Time's era- 
Rendering- back to him the store. 
Of I^ove he loaned to life before. 
That the spirit of Ivove may be 
Kver renewing- Eternity. 



NATURE. 45 

XV, 

MISS DAY AND THE BLACK NIGHT. 

As Gazy sits above the skies, 
He also turns and moves his eyes, 
To look about within the space, 
That Nature has adorned with grace. 

And within this tented tower, 
Mother is busy every hour. 
Fixing- and toileting- her face. 
And decorates her dwelling place. 

In lovely chambers of the east. 
She with the dawn will have a feast, 
Upon the table of the skies, 
"While sleepy Gazy shuts his eyes. 

Here the Night of darkest deeds, 
Makes haste to leave on swiftest steeds; 
Here the Black Night lingers late, 
And skulks away at rapid rate. 

Here Dawn bids morning to Old Sol, 
And sister Day, morning to all. 
While Sol shoots forth a piercing ray, 
And chases the Black Night away. 

This is the tragedy of death, 
Played upon the stage of earth, 
Where the Night of darkness dies, 
On Mother Nature's pillowed skies. 

Here is the birthplace of Miss Day, 
She comes quite often there to stay 
But a few hours, then chased away 
By a Night that passed that way. 



46 NATURE. 

She is a lovely inaiden, white, 
Dressed in a robe of blue and light, 
Comes to gladden the hearts of all, 
But making short her morning call. 

Gazy has sought to see her face, 
But when she comes within his place, 
Her veil shuts out his eyes to see 
How pleasant looking she may be. 

She is the daughter of Old Sol, 
Who shot his arrows through the wall, 
And killed the Night that stood before. 
Old nature at his workshop door. 

Working her way on Nature's hearth, 
Her mother is Old Mother Earth, 
And she sees after Mother there, 
To light up her worldly care. 
And while assisting Nature's work. 
She is Old Mother Nature's clerk. 
And waiting mistress in her hall, 
Presenting Nature those who call; 
Till she from Time the moment choosed 
To have Miss Day to be excused. 

This is in afternoon quite late, [gate; 
When evening meets her at Time's 
Then passing up the western hill, 
She looks not back, nor stands she 

still; 
But dowu the path of Sol's broad way. 
To where Old Nature's hearth of clay. 
Is heated by Old Sol's bright fire, 
And she with mother suffers there. 
While passing by the western cave, 



NATURE. 4? 

Where hiany a Night has stood so 

brave, 
And watched the man in crescent bow, 
A false face Sol put there to show. 
She ling-ers long- upon the hill, 
That towers highest, creeping as still 
As death, she climbs its rock height, 
Where last she's seen to flee from 

Night. 
As Twilight's ragged edge is chased, 
By evening o'er the hills in haste, 
Miss Day the Black Night would o'er- 

haul. 
Did she not company with Old Sol. 
The western horizon is lit. 
As Sol reflects the rays at it 
Where Mother Nature's parting veil 
Glimmers shades of Miss Day's face 

pale. 
Night comes, hasting on his steed. 
Swift as a ray of light can speed. 
Dressed in black he haunts each place. 
Where shadows dark conceal his face. 
And searching each and every nook, 
Where he can penetrate to look, 
He seeks to find some hole so deep, 
That his own selfish powers can keep. 
To watch therein or sleep or stay. 
And live a hermit in his way. 
Looking down from his lofty height, 
Gazy ever watches the Night, 
As he goes round and round the shop, 
Or climbs so shyly to its top. 



4« NATURE. 

XVI. 

MOTHER NATURE'S MUSIC. 

Old Mother Nature's character 
Is represented by the air, 
In which you find her loveliness, 
Or tuned perhaps to the adverse. 

But what may toot or what wind blow, 

She is ready at once to show 

Her disposition in the case; 

And there you find her in her place. 

As well adapted to her sphere. 

As those in her place could appear. 

She whistles in a jug all day. 
To while her idle time away 
The teleg-raph, and all such things, 
She often plays upon their strings. 

As through the trees she gently goes, 
A gentle breeze she gently blows, 
As blowing on a thousand reeds, 
And blows again as sound recedes. 

A thousand discords on the air, 
She tries to make them here and there, 
By blowing on each twig that grows, 
And more it sounds when more she 
blows. 

And many hours she whiles away, 
As she her music tries to play; 
Which is the most peculiar made, 
Of any music ever played. 



NATURE. 49 

Her instrument no tong-ue can tell 
To what degree its notes may swell, 
Or in what place its chording- keys 
Are fingered by the gentle breeze. 

But up and down upon the scale, 
The sound does swell as swells the gale; 
And back again to lovely strains, 
The sprinkle of the gentle rains. 

The hush and roar of angry flames. 
That whist and writhe in burning 

pains, 
And crack and hiss and spit their ire, 
With red hot maddened, burning fire. 

And then a new strain on the keys, 
lyike birds singing among the trees; 
Or all the mockingbirds at dawn. 
Singing at once their morning song. 

And sounds of voice in the air, 
Which imitate sounds everywhere; 
As makes appear a mighty host, 
Talking to see who can say the most. 

And on again with mighty roar, 
As sounds the water when dashed o'er, 
A high precipitated wall, 
As in a cataract they fall. 

And back again to softer keys, 
And whispers of sweet harmonies. 
Which oft are broken iiere and there. 
By thunderings upon the air; 
Sounds as going away from you, 
And laughing as the echoes do. 



so KATURE. 

When a repeat or two is heard, 

L/ike one grown tired speaking- the 

word, 
And not perceiving what he said, 
Substitutes brevities instead, 
Kcids it in mutters very low, 
Hello, low, o-o-o. 

And mingled with the same low strain. 
As it is echoed back again, [at bay. 
Strains that would charm the ghosts 
Enchanting them upon their way. 

And then the peal of cannons' roar. 
With rumbling noises o'er and o'er, 
And thrampling as of cavalry. 
Rushing upon the enemy. 

And all the fiends of deepest hell, 
That might escape from out their cell. 
Become dumbfounded at the strain. 
Cease not their agonized domain. 

They think it is the Devil's gong, 
As he is maching troops along. 
To place them back behind the bars, 
Or fight for him his hellish wars. 

And while their hearts get faint and 

weak. 
The Voice of Nature tries to speak. 
The glory of God's wisdom here. 
Upon the earth and in the air. 

And Mother Nature sings by sound, 
She scatters notes the world around. 



NATURE, I 

In every key in every chord, 
In praises of the God our lyord. 

The spirit sings its hymn of choice, 
Illustrated through Mother's voice, 
Who wafts it to Eternity, 
From whence echoes God's harmony. 



XVII. 

FATHER TIME AND HIS HOUR-GI,ASS. 

As Father Time g-oes down the way, 
He notices at break of day. 
That Mother Nature old and wand 
Has toiled all night with busy hand. 

She is a lady pleasure-graced, 
But still she has no time to waste; 
And on her canvas stretched to view. 
At every scene there's something new. 

And while she sits upon the breeze. 
Changing appearances with ease, 
Old Gazy looks upon the scene, 
With sparkling eyes so bright and 

keen, 
And he and Mother Nature share, 
With Father Time's business affairs. 

Ivong before the E^arth's creation, 
Previous to Space relation, 
Time was sent upon his mission, 
To prepare for this condition. 



52 NATURE, 

And supply the power tbat foments, 
With his many instant moments, 
Which could be only by g^ivingf 
Away periods of his living. 

This to do and still to be, 
The same throughout Eternity, 
Perpetuates and brings about, 
That which Nature can't do without. 

But for this there's no existence. 
And by lending his assistance. 
He is fully represented, 
In the things that God intended. 

Therefore Law, who gives decision, 
That by Time, who gives permission. 
To exist. Such Laws of action, 
In the same course of attraction, 
In the same space, time, and manner, 
That Time's laws present forever, — 
Proves the truth of God's existence. 
Against which there's no resistance. 
And in all of Life's production 
Time with slightest hesitation. 
Stamps it with his superscription. 
And the date of its transaction. 
This he does with great precision. 
Marring not to other's vision; 
But to him it is a volume. 
History's pages by the column. 
Dating back to former history, 
When creation was a mystery, 
Father Time within his chariot, 
Kept his dates in an airy net. 



NATURE. S3 

And down through cycles of ages, 
He has recorded their stages, 
And placed them in creation's sea, 
As Time waves of Eternity. 

And while Old Nature on Earth's back, 
Is seen go down the zodiac. 
With Mother Nature holding fast, 
To his coat tail as he goes past; 
So long will Father Time go by. 
Stamping on the Earth and sky; 
Results of moments he has given, 
To Nature to prolong his living. 

While Sol shows Time his large false 

face, 
Old Gazy winks at Time in space, 
Till Mother Earth comes between, 
And casts a gloom upon the scene. 

Mother Nature disheartend quite, 
Takes Sol's false face in broad day- 
light, 
And places it where Sol can't smile, 
On Mother Earth for quite a while. 

And Time adjusting Sol's false face, 
Makes it appear in comic grace; 
Sometimes a dished face with long 

chin. 
And then a broad face with a grin. 

He keeps account of all the signs. 
And when the moon no longer shines, 
He turns it over end for end. 
And thus returns its golden sand. 



S* KXTURE. 

This is his measurement of time, 
Upon the old hour-glass system; 
But in a larger scale than they, 
And in a more ingenious way. 

His glass is round just like a ball. 
With axes to its outer wall, 
And turns around upon the same. 
As it rests in an airy frame. 

When gold has filled quite full the 

bowl, 
Time's glass, which centers on a pole. 
Is overturned from left to right, 
And then the gold passes from sight. 

And while the glass is turned about. 
To let tlie gold go running out. 
Old Father Time brings it before, 
Old Sol's bright fire and Nature's door. 

And at this place he turns it o'er. 
And gold returns as did before. 
And while the bowl fills to the pot, 
He takes it round behind the shop. 

And as Old Father Time goes by. 
He has Old Gazy move the sky, 
With some degree along the line, 
Where Sol's great fire can on it shine. 

And while the fire shines on the bowl, 
Old Mother Nature paints the whole; 
The side towards the fire with light. 
The other side as black as nig-ht. 



NATURE. 56 

And Law, who governs all and brings, 
About the change of natural things, 
Sought Time to momentary be. 
In making up I^ternity. 

While on its ax Eiarth turned once 

round, 
This I^aw required was one day found; 
And stages of Eternity, 
Were also known as but a day. 

And Nature made these days to be, 
Divided by Time who could see 
The necessity of the hour. 
And the use of his minute power, 
The moments called the hours and 
days, [years, 

To help make up the months and 
And these in turn helped Time to be. 
The Day of an Eternity. 

And Time goes to the moon to stay, 
To count the months that go that way. 
Whose numbered days the moon has 

found. 
In passing Earth but once around. 

Then to the Earth he turns his face, 
To count the month she does embrace, 
To traverse orb around the sun. 
And counts each one a year begun; 
But every time this course is run, 
Is but a day of Time begun. 



56 NATURE. 

XVIII. 

TIME'S SPRING DRESS. 

And Time rolls on for Earth to bring- 
The year's morning", beautiful spring-; 

And Father Time lays winter's cloak, 
In Mother Nature's -wash to soak; 
And dresses up in spring-'s attire. 
As green as fancy could desire; 
All Life that Gazy looks upon. 
While Nature smiles that winter's gone 
And left the place while he's the guest. 
Of Ivife and Ivove at Ivaw's request. 

Time with spring-'s g-ay dress in fashion 
Bring-s Old Nature through mud splash- 
Down the Zodiac's lawn of space, [ing 
Where are sweet smiles that angels 

place, 
On Gazy's brow to charm I^ife's eye, 
While Nature tends and Time goes by. 

The angels bear these smiles of heaven. 
And tack them on the workshop door; 
That the Love that God has given, 
lyife may sip from Nature's store. 

Blossoms sweet and buds all blooming. 
Mother Nature's now perfuming 
Her breath with fragrant aromas. 
Fresh from Nature's choice displays. 

The buds on every living plant, 
Bursting their bonds with bold intent, 



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Unfold the L/ife that Nature sent, 
Time to the spirit makes present. 
In Mother Nature's ways her (h)air 
Is fumed; her tears she sheds them 

where 
Old Time will share his sympathy 
With her, and work in harmony, 
That what their worth, L<ife may feel 
To spend this season pleasantly, [free 

Sol's warm sympathy for Nature, 
Softening- his icy feature. 
Gives to Mother Nature's fing-ers. 
Taste to handle leaves and flowers, 
And each tiny little plantling, 
L/ike a little silver scantling-, 
She its little leaves unfolding. 
Bracing, chaffing, touching, holding. 

Mothering, nursing its weak form, 
Putting its cloak for Sol to warm; 
Bathing and drying its body clean. 
Making look fresh its dress of green, 
Till it can hold its head with ease. 
Bold faced 'gainst the wind and breeze. 
With flowry cheeks and gems inset; 
With buds and blossoms and pistilet, 
That wave and nod obeisance. 
With gracefulness and much of scents. 

'Tis life that Nature should fulfil. 
These natural things, such is God's 
Requiring such a life as hers, [will; 
To do these duties as a nurse. 



58 NATURE. 

Not just upon the earth is she, 
To spend her time as nurse to be; 
But what of Nature's part she shares, 
Is that tending- Mothers's affairs. 
To render back to earth its powers, 
In giving- spring its sun and showers, 
Which swells the very soul of earth, 
With richest blessings and with mirth. 

In spring- the brooks the waters swell, 
And rush along their banks pell mell; 
Flowing onward from side to side. 
Till in some larger stream they glide, 

Prattling, rippling on their way. 
Telling the story, how that they 
Were sent to kiss the earth's sweet 

face. 
While Time adorned it in spring's 

grace. 

Creeks are one continuous tail. 
Of water flowing by hill and vale, 
Until they meet some other course 
Of water, which oft forms the source, 
Of some of Nature's mighty veins, 
Iveading earth's blood to lower planes. 

That when in springNature is drench'd 
With rain, that Life's thirst be thus 

quenched; 
Karth might not be deluged all o'er, 
And Nature be as 'twas before; 
The islands with their rivers came, 
To lead earth's waters back again; 



NATURE. 59 

While all their banks some story tell, 
Of ag-es when sotne life g-erms swell, 
To render unto God some power. 
Developed for that very hour. 

And this is Nature's work to do. 
That L/ife may be brought forth anew 
In all its robes of loveliness; 
In spring- is when Time bring-s its dress 
For Mother Nature's wash to clean, 
While Sol now smiles and earth looks 
green. 

Ivife-g-iving spring- time, sun and 

showers, 
Come swift to rescue the living- flowers; 
In crystal shackles long bound fast, 
Forg-ed by Old Winter's chilling^ blast 

The wind that woos all verdure green. 
And kisses Life upon the scene, 
Ivike to a child, that has no care, 
Sounds his g-ladness in atmosphere. 

Sun chases shadow, not in vain. 
Up and down the hill and plain; 
And soon the fields with one accord. 
Tell coming- prospects of rich reward. 

The g-entle tears that trickle down 
Upon earth's brow once cold and brown 
Are kissed away with airy grace. 
By Ivove beaming- from Nature's face. 

Spring time, what love doth charm 
thy life 



60 NATURE. 

With sweet refreshing- breaths, thou 
hath 

The g-low of freshness in thy face; 

Thy blush makes I^ove for Ivife's em- 
brace. 



XIX. 

TIME'S SUMMER DRESS. 

While Time is taking- his short rest, 
In looking- over Nature's vest. 
He sees that it beg-ins to fade, 
'Tis not so lovely as when made; 

But in its pockets everywhere 
Is Nature storing- all his ware; 
Measuring- to each one a share, [spare. 
Just what Old Time would let him 

Miss Day puts in some extra work, 
And g-ets from Time more hours to 
That all of busy life may see [clerk. 
More of the pleasant thing-s, that she 
Has opportunity to show 
In Nature's g-ardens where they g-row. 

The plains are dressed with g-rain and 

^rass. 
And timbered land bears fruit and 

mast. 
And all of Earth in summer's g-own 
Is laid with g-ifts that Nature found. 
And placed them where man's will is 
To gather them, or let them be. [free 



NATURE. 61 

In spring- Time found the buds and 
flowers, 

But now they're g'one with all sprinjf 
showers; 

Among- the leaves now in their place, 

The plump fruit hang-s its blushing- 
face. 

Such sweets as Nature has in store, 
Are hung- at Nature's workshop door; 
Where Mother Nature makes display; 
Time's summer dress in her own way. 

And thoug-h she seems to take no pains 
To make display the Earth's domains, 
liach part wherein she helps prepare, 
L<aw scrolls to I^ife with g-reatest care. 

The sweet blush now that life can wear 
Old Mother Nature paints it there; 
And all the sweet thing-s on life's pag-e 
Does Mother Nature's powers engage, 
To paint the Earth in summer dress, 
In all of summer's loveliness. 

Earth now dress'd in a rich green shade 
Appears young as a handsome maid; 
Life breathes fast through her leafy 

veil. 
Nor does Ivife linger on Time's trail. 
But on his very heels she trods, 
On what business it makes no odds. 

And Nature sleeps and dreams lyife's 

dream, 
To make appear as does L<ife seem; 



62 NATURE, 

Man sleeps and dreams that L/ife is 

beauty, 
Nature wakes and life is duty. 

Summer's harvest time is bring-ing-, 
And to Nature's fing-ers cling-ing-, 
As he holds his arms extended, 
Are the gifts that God intended. 

Nature should bestow in harvest, 
Spirit rejoicing I^ife is blessed; 
Puts forth its lips and tastes the juice, 
That God has caused the earth produce. 

The summer sun with showers of rain. 
Sink deep their shafts on hill and 

plain, 
Draws old Nature from his domain, 
By electricity's powerful chain. 

These powers of Ivife expand the chord 
That holds Old Nature's rich reward, 
And lets his life-blood through the vein 
To Mother Nature's vast domain. 

The style and dress of summer's g-own, 
That Time in summer brings around, 
Is different in each diiferent age, 
Which that summer is all the rage. 

No joy is ever full complete. 
Until it tastes of summer's sweet; 
Until it drinks from nature's cup. 
The sweets that summer brings to sup, 

Summer, the mid-day of the year, 
Whom Sol has made himself appear. 



NATURE. 63 

^o sit upon the topmost seat, 
And send to earth his hottest heat, 

Is when the earth beg-ins to fade. 
Its lovely dress of green and plaid, 
And older grows as does the year, 
Finds Sol tow'rd winter's zones draw 



XX. 

TIME'S AUTUMN DRESS. 

Old Father Time's autumn attire, 
Don't suit somehow to Ivife's desire, 
And he is busy at the waist. 
To make it fit to Nature's taste. 

The g-own is old and ragged, too, 
And Nature colors it to dew, 
Until time can obtain a new. 
Which he will rip that he will sew. 

He cuts and trims and sows and sows, 
Till Mother Nature goes and blows, 
About the fragments Time has made, 
Of Karth's sweet gown, summer dis- 
played. 

The many tints and lovely shades. 
The many styles of different grades, 
Of such trimming Nature could place, 
To decorate the Earth's broad face. 

Time in the spring began to show, 
And as time flies his numbers grow. 



64 NATURE. 

Until the entire summer gown, 
Does not comprise the number found, 
Of every shade, shape, tint and hue. 
He needs to make Barth'sg^arment do, 
Until the end of this long- year, 
In which this garment does appear. 

Nature has gone to its expense, 
Its value simply is immense; 
The style of trimming he has made 
Is of the very finest grade. 

Only the powers of Time can tell. 
In yon E^ternity how well. 
The garment of Time's autumn dress. 
Has given life its loveliness. 

A lovely autumn full, complete, 
For harvesting, of fruits and meat. 
The evening of the year, when all 
Of Nature's work complete makes fall. 

"When Time upon the year has brought 
The wane of life, and Karth is fraught 
With every blessing life can give. 
In every field of life to live. 

When Nature's powers run one course, 
Of L/aw which produces the source. 
Of each and every germ of life. 
Nature's conception can contrive. 

The twilight of the season's sun. 
When Sol has sunk 'yond horizon, 
To part of Karth, where life is numb 
Already, 'neath old winter's thumb. 



NATURE. 65 

When Time permits Old Winter, Frost, 
And edge his tools, where they had lost, 
The temper of their tormer state. 
And keep a watch until so late. 
As Nature's season life is prime. 
Beg-in to bite and pinch the vine, 
Till life approach its ripest stage, 
The gray locks of the season's age. 

How grand does Earth's face now ap- 
pear. 
In Time's autumn dress. Earth is near 
The fullness of of her season's toil, 
Well ladened with its gifts and spoil. 

And though Old Time has on it placed, 
His fingers where dead shades are 

traced. 
They are but words upon Life's page, 
Written by Nature's hand that age. 
Is coming on to this long year, 
And Winter will quite soon appear. 
To claim his share of Earth's remains 
While Life's blood curds in Nature's 

veins 
The foliage of wood and glade. 
Bears warning signs that Time has 

made. 
For Nature to prepare Earth well, 
To stay in Winter's chains a spell. 
The insect and each thing that dies, 
When Winter throws frost in its eyes; 
Nature has such pack-germs in kegs, 
Till Time brings spring's dress croaks 

the frogs. 



66 NATURE. 

The leaves are plucked and laid some- 
where, 
As Mother Nature's fin g-ers bear, 
That insect who may chance by there, 
May hide himself from Old Winter. 
And feed upon the distilled juice, 
That Nature from these leaves produce. 
Which lays in pools in everj one, 
That can such fluid life retain. 
And every germ of lite that be, 
Time's autumn dress is made so he 
Can shelter some of every kind. 
While Nature makesfood they can find. 
From smallest bit to largest beast, 
Nature performs for each a feast. 
Upon the products of his hands, 
Which he brings forth as Time de- 
mands. 

And each of these are for' man's good, 
That man the Earth replenish should. 
Subdue the hills, valleys and plain. 
And cause come forth its life and grain. 
That when Old Time in winter's dress, 
Bring-s forth to Karth its chilliness, 
Man can truly with comfort rest, 
Since God his work with fruit has 

blest. 
Or when the autumn time of ag-e, 
Has brought man to his hoary stage. 
His soul can rest and trust in him. 
Whose love subdues the frosts of sin. 
And whom Nature is pointing- to. 
In every law he brings to view. 



NATURE. 67 

XXI. 

Winter AND TIME in winter's 

DRESS. 

As Time lays by his Autumn dress, 
Winter comes forth in shag-g-iness, 
And binds the Earth in bands of 
Icicles, holding Nature fast, [glassed 

Winter who climbs far out the poles, 
Upon which Nature bears and holds, 
The Barth in God's vast Universe, 
By Laws that govern to rehearse; 
The Time permitting life to be, 
Coines down in torrid zones to sea. 
And land and lakes that he can claim, 
And fastens Nature in the same. 

Mather takes off Earth's leafy vest. 
And Earth in snowy white is dressed; 
While Time presents Old Winter, 

crowned. 
For Nature to adorn his gown. 

And Nature hangs his pearl like jets. 
On Time's new winter gown, and sets 
It off in finest ornaments. 
That Mother Nature's art presents. 

The elements by Nature change. 
And crystallize in shapes that range. 
Throughout the entire space and line, 
Of ceaseless architect design, 
Which Mother Nature's powers ar- 
range, 



6S NATURE. 

With fingers that do thing-s in strange 
Peculiar ways, which she npw blows, 
About wherever Winter goes. 

Winter, whose blood runs cold in veins. 
Of temperature which Sol restrains, 
When e'er his presence doth behold, 
That part of !Eiarth, Winter makes cold 

L/ives at the poles of Eiarth's great 

sphere. 
During almost the entire year. 
And when Old Sol has gone to stay, 
At one of Earth's poles for a day, 
(A Day which I^aw. provided that, 
Old Sol shall melt Old Winter's fat) 

Winter will make the other pole. 

His headquarters and bind Earth's 

whole 
Frigid Zone in great fields of ice. 
That raises high toward the skies; 
Their mountain spires like cities white, 
In Winter's dress and Time's long 

night. 

While at the poles Sol casts his eye, 
With longing gaze at towers so high. 
In that vast city Winter made. 
Which Mother Nature's art displayed. 

His fiery darts which pierce their rays. 
Into their glass-like forms and gaze. 
With steady fierceness all the time. 
That Sol so near their top doth climb, 



NATURE. 6$ 

Lays Winter's city iu the deep 
Waters, where Old Nature asleep 
In death's cold hands, in winter's cell, 
Abide by Winter's Laws a spell. 

Old Mother Nature now feels cold 
To Karth, since Winter has g-ot hold 
Of Nature, fastening- his fang's 
In Nature's bosom, where he hangs 
And sucks the life-blood in his veins, 
To icicles and icy chains, 

With sympathy she does her part, 

By Nature showing- how warm her 

heart. 
And so to hide the scene from sig-ht. 
Casts o'er it all a robe of white. 



XXII. 

MAN IN NATURE. 

While God permits Nature to be, 
Time'unfolds in a living- sea. 
And Life presents eternity; 
Its Love and husks and poetry. 

In Time God breathed the breath of 
And man became a living- soul, [Life, 
God blessed his work and called it good. 
For man was imaged like as God. 

The Son of God the son of man, 
Bore the image that we beg-an. 
And never ceased from being pure, 



•70 NATURE. 

He was the life, the ligfht, atid door, 
Through which God brought about 

Nature, 
That man might all his blessings 

share, 
But Satan taught man how to sin. 
From which misery and death begin. 
Man might prolong his earth career, 
By eating of the tree of life, 
But he who made man in Nature, 
Would free the soul from an endless 

strife. 
Thus God put five to guard the tree. 
That the soul might get free from the 

body 
Through death. That by the rich- 

eousness 
Of God, who lived holy for us, [blood. 
Our souls receive life through his 
That on the cross for sin was shed. 

With knowledge God endowed man's 

His intellect was to behold [soul 

Nature, that he might thus subdue 

The powers that were therefor him to. 

The sensibility his soul 

Possessed, were 'tentions to control 

The life that was allotted him. 

By properly adjusting them. 

Will was the court and Judge of trust. 

Who formed decisions to adjust 

The sensibility to act, 

In accordance with intellect. 

The body Nature gives to man. 



NATURE. 71 

God fashioned and revealed the plan 
Of life that man should strive to live, 
And lo attain this end, God give 
To him all living- things of Earth, 
To bless his table and his hearth. 

Man is a creature Nature sustains, 
Giving food for bod^' and brains, 
Filling designs for which man 

yearns, 
When these supplied his want still 

burns. 
Life of the body Nature made, 
Is elements of flesh and blood, 
The spirit life that which is man. 
Pulsates the heart of thought which 

can, 
Reach into profound depths of space, 
With reasoning and mist'ry trace. 
And as his body grows and lives 
By sustenance that Nature gives, 
So does his soul branch out in thought 
As environments it feeds has taught. 
The soul is store house where you find, 
Treasured up the fruits of the mind; 
Gathered from the environments. 
In which most it finds content. 
Guard then thy thoughts; they are but 
That ripen into living deeds; [seeds. 
Bringing you to your weal or woe. 
As does your Nature in them grow; 
Implant and store within the soul, 
Christ's spirit whom God maketh 

whole. 



12 NATURE, 

These all are powers of the spirit 
Of man revealing- life in its 
Many phases. And. all the powers 
That Nature has to while Time's hours. 

And in them is true sweets of life, 
Good motives end, where there's no 

strife 
Against the power of sin, to try 
To live is to prepare to die. 

God provided all thing-s needful, 
That your life may be pure and true. 
If through Satan your nature's evil, 
No one is blamable but you. 

The God like creation breaks his back, 
To every duty and not slack 
With lyove to him who gave 
The privilege to be life's slave; 
With pleasant Nature sees no wrong, 
That the offender brings along; 
But strives to do what is God's will, 
Believing 'tis ordained to fulfill. 
Some part of I^aw through righteous- 
ness. 
That he himself ought to possess. 

The Golden Rule, to others do. 
As you would have them do to you, 
Is but regards Barth's social laws. 
This commandment Christ gave to do, 
Ivove one another as I loved you, 
For this come I unto this cause. 






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